Tag: Opportunity rover
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Lessons from 15-year rover mission: Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
Planetary scientist Steve Squyres, who headed the science team for NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers and now serves as Blue Origin’s chief scientist, demonstrates how the rovers were parked on slanted slopes to soak up maximum solar energy during the Martian winter. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — For 15 years, planetary…
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After leading Mars rover missions, Steve Squyres joins Blue Origin as chief scientist
Cornell astronomer Steve Squyres, the principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rovers, will become Blue Origin’s chief scientist. (Cornell University Photo) Just months after closing out the 15-year-long Opportunity rover mission on Mars, Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres is taking advantage of a new opportunity: the post of chief scientist at Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’…
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Opportunity on Mars, 2004-2019: NASA sings requiem to a rover — and looks ahead
Ths colorized image of the Opportunity rover’s shadow was taken on July 26, 2004, by the rover’s front hazard-avoidance camera as it moved farther into Endurance Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Photo) After months of silence from Mars, NASA finally read the rites over its Opportunity rover, hailing the…
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Two mini-probes fade into the sunset beyond Mars: Is Opportunity rover next?
This image of Mars was captured by one of NASA’s MarCO satellites from a distance of about 4,700 miles, about 10 minutes after the descent of NASA’s Mars InSight lander on Nov. 26, 2018. The grid seen on the right edge of the image is the spacecraft’s high-gain antenna. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Photo) Farewell, WALL-E…
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As Mars’ huge dust storm clears, NASA’s Opportunity rover is seen but not heard
An image from a high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Opportunity rover as a bright blip inside the white box. The box marks a 154-foot-wide area in Mars’ Perseverance Valley. Click on the image for a larger version. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona Photo) NASA’s Opportunity rover still hasn’t made…
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Good news! NASA says Opportunity rover should be able to wait out Martian storm
An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Opportunity rover under sunnier conditions. (NASA Illustration) NASA has had to put its power-starved Opportunity rover into an induced coma on Mars, but that drastic maneuver — plus some luck — should be enough to save it from one of the worst dust storms ever observed on the Red Planet. That doesn’t…
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NASA loses contact with its dust-choked Opportunity rover on Mars, but stay tuned
This series of images shows simulated views of a darkening Martian sky blotting out the sun from the Opportunity rover’s point of view, with the right side simulating Opportunity’s current view in the current dust storm. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / TAMU) News Brief: NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars has lost touch with its handlers back…